River Valley High School [*IP]

[stressy]

dolphinsiah:

Wait, I am confused. This year 2010 is the first batch of RV taking \"A\" level right? If yes, that means he is year 6 this year. :?

So .... you have heard about it too lor ... :lol:

yup happen my dd know him. he is fm year 5 bcos the yr 5/6 listen to the principal speech n he said something..........

[stressy]

daisyt:

Can you check with her is this the magazine? It seems a local production and publish. If this is the one, I would like to subscribe for dd to read. Thanks for your recommendation. :celebrate:

spoken to dd, is the broaderperspectives from SOT. she thumbs-up!!
go ahead with it.

[daisyt]

stressy:

spoken to dd, is the broaderperspectives from SOT. she thumbs-up!!

go ahead with it.

stressy, thank you so much!! :celebrate:

[dolphinsiah]

I understand from my child that the Magazine BroaderPerspertive -the school already help them to subscribe using the EduFund...


My child now in Y4,

Last Year they subscribe \"Present Prefect\" ...another local magazine which is for the lower Sec.

:lol:

[rosecy]

justsay:

oh yeah, that's right. It is so competitive nowadays... they'll need CCA, CIP and lots of other additional profile in addition to their straight As before they can get into those popular courses they want in uni. Not easy at all. :rant:

if i not wrong, A level grades also have certain points system similar to O level L1R5.....one can still get into their choice uni course with excellent results. cca achievements, ocip, leadership are definitely required for scholarship n also useful when applying for job

[justsay]

rosecy:

justsay:

oh yeah, that's right. It is so competitive nowadays... they'll need CCA, CIP and lots of other additional profile in addition to their straight As before they can get into those popular courses they want in uni. Not easy at all. :rant:

if i not wrong, A level grades also have certain points system similar to O level L1R5.....one can still get into their choice uni course with excellent results. cca achievements, ocip, leadership are definitely required for scholarship n also useful when applying for job

True, but when everyone applying for a certain popular course with perfect results, uni will base on additional portfolio and interview to select the better ones.
Once my niece wrote in to appeal when she couldn't get into Accoutancy, the reply was \" striaght As is a norm and not exception\". It clearly implied that with excellent academic results is not good enough for certain courses.

[dolphinsiah]

Wow ! Accountancy also so difficult to go in...

I thought only Medical and Law is difficult to get in....

Which is the least popular courses in U...can advice? :lol:

[daisyt]

Hi senior high parents, have the school organise any career talk for the students? I heard from my dd, it should be somewhere in year 4. Which are the schools or orgnisation that came to the school for the talks?

[justsay]

dolphinsiah:

Wow ! Accountancy also so difficult to go in...

I thought only Medical and Law is difficult to get in....

Which is the least popular courses in U...can advice? :lol:

What I got from NUS website :
http://www.nus.edu.sg/oam/gradeprofile/sprogramme-igp.html#tabel1

Released on 2 Feb 2010, 5.40pm.

Table 1: Grade Profiles of the 10th and 90th percentiles of ‘A’-Level Applicants offered places for courses at NUS in UAE 2009
NUS Courses Representative Grade Profile 3H2/1H1

10th percentile 90th percentile

Faculty of Law
Law* AAA/A AAA/A
School of Medicine
Medicine* AAA/A AAA/A
Nursing* CCC/B AAA/B

Faculty of Dentistry
Dentistry* AAA/A AAA/A

School of Design & Environment
Architecture* BBB/C AAA/A
Industrial Design* BCC/C AAA/A
Project & Facilities Management BBB/B AAB/B
Real Estate BBB/C AAB/B

Faculty of Engineering
Engineering ABB/B AAA/A
Bioengineering AAB/C AAA/A
Chemical Engineering AAA/A AAA/A
Civil Engineering BBB/B AAA/A
Electrical Engineering BBB/C AAA/A
Environment Engineering AAA/A AAA/A
Engineering Science AAB/C AAA/A
Industrial & Systems Engineering AAA/A AAA/A
Materials Science & Engineering AAA/C AAA/A
Mechanical Engineering ABB/B AAA/A

School of Computing
Computing BBB/B AAA/A

Faculty of Engineering & School of Computing
Computer Engineering BBB/C AAA/A

Faculty of Science
Pharmacy AAA/A AAA/A
Science ABB/B AAA/A

School of Business
Business Admin AAA/C AAA/A
Business Admin (Accountancy) AAA/B AAA/A

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences
Arts & Social Sciences ABB/C AAA/A
Arts & Social Sciences (MT related) BBB/C BBB/B


* Courses that require interview &/or test.
Double Degrees are excluded from the table.

[justsay]

dolphinsiah:

Wow ! Accountancy also so difficult to go in...

I thought only Medical and Law is difficult to get in....

Which is the least popular courses in U...can advice? :lol:

This is from NTU website :
http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/oad2/website_files/AY09-10_IGP.pdf

Table 1: Grade Profiles of the 10th and 90th percentiles of „A‟-Level Applicants offered places for programmes at NTU in UAE 2009

Aerospace Engineering
AAA/B AAA/A

Bioengineering
BBC/A AAA/A

Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering
AAA/B AAA/A

Civil Engineering
BCC/C AAA/B

Computer Engineering
BBC/B AAA/A

Computer Science
BBC/C AAA/A

Electrical & Electronic Engineering
BCC/C AAA/A

Engineering
BCC/B AAA/C

Environmental Engineering
ABB/B AAA/A

Information Engineering & Media
BBC/C AAA/A

Maritime Studies
ABB/A AAA/A

Materials Engineering
BBC/C AAA/A

Mechanical Engineering
BCC/B AAA/B

College of Science
Biological Sciences*
BBC/B AAA/A

Chemistry & Biological Chemistry
BBB/B AAA/A

Mathematical Sciences
BBB/B AAA/A

Mathematics & Economics
ABB/B AAA/A

Physics / Applied Physics
BBB/C AAA/A

Nanyang Business School (College of Business)
Accountancy*
AAA/B AAA/A

Business*
AAA/B AAA/A

College of Humanities,
Arts, & Social Sciences
Art, Design & Media*
CDD/C AAA/A

Chinese
CCC/C AAA/B

Communication Studies*
ABB/B AAA/A

Economics*
BBB/B AAA/B

1 These provide an indication of the grade profiles for most of the applicants admitted in AY2009-10. There could be other “equivalent” profiles for each programme. For example, a grade profile of ABC/C could be considered to be broadly equivalent to BBB/C, unless there are pre-requisites.